Careful timing ensures crops can handle a little heat. But recently, sudden heat waves and long-lasting ones in already warm ...

The industrial standard in agriculture involves heavy use of herbicides and pesticides to meet the bottom line of production.

These pros react to viral farming hacks and determine which ones actually have promise.

With the international conference wrapped up, here are the pledges and initiatives that will have the biggest impact on farming and agriculture.

Plants that attract these beneficial predators include vetch, alfalfa, corn, and crimson clover. Natives like elderberry, ...

Blossom end rot, a condition that results when plants don’t have access to enough calcium, is another challenge of dry ...

Members of the Aster and Symphyotrichum genera are long-beloved plants with a wide range of nativity across North America.

The sustainable technology presents an opportunity to turn cow manure and food waste into renewable energy and added income. But biodigesters are not always easy to operate, and they can be costly to ...

For Joseph Goni, a fourth-generation dairy farmer in Tulare County, California, the region’s historic floods were part of family lore. As such, his grandfather, who lived through the 1955 deluge, ...

Others, categorized as drought-tolerant crops, require very little. So, if you’re short on water, there’s no need to let it stop you from growing. There are a number of crops you can plant that ...

Located in a desert—a literal one, as well as an isolated area with limited access to food—the dry patch of land now home to the Huachuca City Community Garden (HCCG) was never intended to be a ...